Video (3min 5sec): Salomon Extreme Freeride Championships at Taos. The Salomon Extreme Freeride Championships at Taos will take place on March 4 - 7, 2009 at Taos Ski Valley.

Salomon Extreme Freeride Championships at Taos, is a four-day freeride competition for skiers and snowboarders. The event features a cash purse of $10,000, equipment and product prizes for the top finishers in each of the divisions: Male, Female, and Junior skiers.

Entries limited to 150 competitors. Qualifying consists of two runs, with the field being progressively cut each day.

Video (5min 52sec): Video: How Taos Ski Valley Snowboarding Began. Here's a bunch of very interesting clips from the first day of snowboarding at Taos Ski Valley (TSV).

In the year of 2008, in the month of March, and on the 19th day Taos Ski Valley opened for snowboarding for the first time.

Taos Ski Valley is a very interesting place.

It had the first electricity in New Mexico when they were Copper mining up there way back when, but the project didn't last. Taos Ski Valley was accessible on only a wagon road until the Seventies.

There are a ton of cool reasons to go to TSV for your skiing and snowboarding.

There's the view and the shops, the runs. The magic of our own Taos Mountain just creates a vibration within you while on the mountain that is virtually unmatched for clear thought. And meditative skiing - like "The Zen of Skiing" - Real Mind over Matter stuff.

And actually TSV skiers have spoken of some very spiritual inner moments, there.

Take a Trip to Taos Ski Valley, Okay?

Video (4min 10sec): A Hodge-Podge of Great Runs from the Angelfire Resort - Highway to Eagle Glade to Shortcut to Lower Fat City.

Brilliant sunlight - crystal clear vivid blue sky - air sparkling, alive with tiny ice crystals, feeling like you're in the middle of a glittering toy snow globe!

Beautiful bright white snow, groomed to perfection on our 67 ski trails.

NM's only two high speed quad chairlifts whisk you 2,000 ft up the mountain so you can glide down the uncrowded terrain.

Video (40sec): Freestyle Skiing Team in Taos New Mexico. Taos Freestyle Team shows off their skiing skills and tricks.

Freestyle skiing began in the 1930s, when Norwegian skiers began performing acrobatics during alpine and cross-country training. Later, non-competitive professional skiing exhibitions in the United States featured performances of what would later be called freestyle. Aerial skiing was developed in about 1950 by Olympic gold medalist Stein Eriksen.